Re: Test D03 hang under cygwin 1.7

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:56:26 +0000
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:07:24 -0500
> Vin Shelton <acs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Under the soon-to-be-released Cygwin 1.7, I downloaded the latest CVS
> > sources and ran a build from scratch.  I'm getting a test hang in D03:
> 
> This is process substitution again.  This is problematic under Cygwin:
> sometimes one of the two forms works, sometimes another, even though both
> are notionally present and zsh is simply using documented behaviour that
> works on other systems.  (The real problem, of course, is that process
> handling is intrinsically horrific in Cygwin.)
> 
> I don't think we can do much more than skip the test and put a warning
> about related features in the manual.  We might be able to add an option to
> pick the support we use (named pipes or device files) but that's probably
> only of use to the sort of people who could in any case hack the
> configuration by hand.

... in fact, could you try #define'ing PATH_DEV_FD in config.h (it's turned
off by a special test in configure) and see if that works with the new
version of Cygwin?  We can always reverse the configured default when that
comes out.

Thanks.

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